In the Obama administration's first comments after Russia took control of Crimea early Tuesday morning, Vice President Joe Biden said Russia's recent actions in Ukraine had left it "alone" and "naked" in front of the rest of the world.

Speaking at a press conference in Poland with Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Biden said Russia isolated itself through its veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the recent Crimean resolution to secede from Ukraine as illegitimate.

"Even China decided it could not support it, and abstained," Biden said, according to a White House pool report. "And Russia, Russia stood alone, naked in front of the world for the aggression they had undertaken."